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Reigning dumplings

Shortly after Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver arrived in Shanghai, China, the host city for the 2007 competitive games last October, he found himself at the kitchen table in a Chinese household making dumplings.

Dumplings were not his forte. Still, as his organization was in the midst of bringing 5,000 athletes together for an international sports program, he felt getting involved with a country’s culinary traditions was key to opening the door to a country’s culture